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THE FIRST BOOK OF MOSES CALLED<br/>
<span class=large>GENESIS</span>
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CHAPTER 32
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Jacob sees angels—He asks God to preserve him from Esau, for whom he prepares presents—He wrestles all night with a messenger of God—Jacob’s name is changed to Israel—He sees God face to face.
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And</span> Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.
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And when Jacob saw them, he said, This <i>is</i> God’s <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/32/2a" mark="a" type="Q" title="HEB mahneh, ‘camp.’; D&C 64: 24.">host</a>: and he called the name of that place <sup>b</sup><a href="gen/32/2b" mark="b" type="D" title="IE Two hosts, or camps.">Mahanaim</a>.
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And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother unto the land of <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/32/3a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 36: 8 (8-9); Deut. 2: 5 (4-6); Ezek. 35: 2 (1-15).">Seir</a>, the country of <sup>b</sup><a href="gen/32/3b" mark="b" type="A" title="Gen. 36: 1 (1, 8).">Edom</a>.
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And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall ye speak unto my lord Esau; Thy servant Jacob saith thus, I have sojourned with Laban, and stayed there until now:
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And I have oxen, and asses, flocks, and menservants, and womenservants: and I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find grace in thy sight.
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&#182; And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to thy brother Esau, and also he cometh to meet thee, and four hundred men with him.
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Then Jacob was greatly afraid and <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/32/7a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 35: 3.">distressed</a>: and he divided the people that <i>was</i> with him, and the flocks, and herds, and the camels, into two bands;
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And said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it, then the other company which is left shall escape.
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&#182; And Jacob said, O <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/32/9a" mark="a" type="A" title="Matt. 22: 32; 1 Ne. 19: 10; D&C 136: 21.">God</a> of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> which saidst unto me, <sup>b</sup><a href="gen/32/9b" mark="b" type="A" title="Gen. 31: 3 (3, 13).">Return</a> unto thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee:
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<sup>a</sup><a href="gen/32/10a" mark="a" type="F" title="OR I am unworthy of all the mercies  . . .; TG Worthiness.">I</a> am not worthy of the least of all the <sup>b</sup><a href="gen/32/10b" mark="b" type="A" title="Gen. 24: 27; 1 Ne. 1: 20; Alma 34: 38; D&C 46: 15.">mercies</a>, and of all the truth, which thou hast shewed unto thy servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I am become two bands.
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<sup>a</sup><a href="gen/32/11a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Deliverance.">Deliver</a> me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he will come and smite me, <i>and</i> the mother with the children.
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And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/32/12a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Seed of Abraham.">seed</a> as the <sup>b</sup><a href="gen/32/12b" mark="b" type="A" title="Hosea 1: 10.">sand</a> of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.
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&#182; And he lodged there that same night; and took of that which came to his hand a present for Esau his brother;
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Two hundred she goats, and twenty he goats, two hundred ewes, and twenty rams,
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Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and ten bulls, twenty she asses, and ten foals.
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And he delivered <i>them</i> into the hand of his servants, every drove by themselves; and said unto his servants, Pass over before me, and put a space betwixt drove and drove.
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And he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau my brother meeteth thee, and asketh thee, saying, Whose <i>art</i> thou?  and whither goest thou?  and whose <i>are</i> these before thee?
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Then thou shalt say, <i>They be</i> thy servant Jacob’s; it <i>is</i> a present sent unto my lord Esau: and, behold, also he <i>is</i> behind us.
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And so commanded he the second, and the third, and all that followed the droves, saying, On this manner shall ye speak unto Esau, when ye find him.
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And say ye moreover, Behold, thy servant Jacob <i>is</i> behind us. For he said, I will appease him with the present that goeth before me, and afterward I will see his face; peradventure he will accept of me.
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So went the present over before him: and himself lodged that night in the company.
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And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two womenservants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford Jabbok.
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And he took them, and sent them over the brook, and sent over that he had.
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&#182; And Jacob was left alone; and there <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/32/24a" mark="a" type="A" title="Enos 1: 2 (1-12); Alma 8: 10.">wrestled</a> a man with him until the breaking of the day.
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And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob’s thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him.
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And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh.  And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.
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And he said unto him, What <i>is</i> thy name?  And he said, Jacob.
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And he said, Thy <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/32/28a" mark="a" type="C" title="Gen. 25: 26; TG Name.">name</a> shall be called no more Jacob, but <sup>b</sup><a href="gen/32/28b" mark="b" type="F" title="IE He perseveres (with) God; it may also mean, Let God prevail; TG Israel, Origins of.">Israel</a>: <sup>c</sup><a href="gen/32/28c" mark="c" type="D" title="OR for thou hast persevered with God  . . .">for</a> as a <sup>d</sup><a href="gen/32/28d" mark="d" type="A" title="Ps. 135: 4; 3 Ne. 5: 21 (21-26); D&C 49: 24 (23-25); D&C 52: 2 (1-3); D&C 132: 37.">prince</a> hast thou <sup>e</sup><a href="gen/32/28e" mark="e" type="B" title="TG Priesthood, Power of.">power</a> with God and with men, and hast <sup>f</sup><a href="gen/32/28f" mark="f" type="A" title="Hosea 12: 4.">prevailed</a>.
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And Jacob asked <i>him,</i> and said, Tell <i>me,</i> I pray thee, thy name.  And he said, Wherefore <i>is</i> it <i>that</i> thou dost ask after my <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/32/29a" mark="a" type="C" title="Judg. 13: 18; Mosiah 5: 12 (9-14); D&C 18: 25; D&C 130: 11; TG Name.">name</a>?  And he <sup>b</sup><a href="gen/32/29b" mark="b" type="A" title="Gen. 48: 16.">blessed</a> him there.
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And Jacob called the name of the place <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/32/30a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE The face of God.">Peniel</a>: for I have <sup>b</sup><a href="gen/32/30b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG God, Knowledge about; TG God, Privilege of Seeing.">seen</a> God <sup>c</sup><a href="gen/32/30c" mark="c" type="C" title="Ether 12: 39; D&C 17: 1; Moses 1: 11 (2, 11, 31); Moses 7: 4; TG God, Body of - Corporeal Nature; TG God, Manifestations of.">face</a> to face, and my life is preserved.
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And as he passed over <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/32/31a" mark="a" type="D" title="Variant of Peniel.">Penuel</a> the sun rose upon him, and he halted upon his thigh.
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Therefore the children of Israel eat not <i>of</i> the sinew which shrank, which <i>is</i> upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day: because he touched the hollow of Jacob’s thigh in the sinew that shrank.
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